---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to certificates of residence required of community college enrollees"
description: "Provides for the electronic submission of certificates of residence by community college enrollees; prohibits a community college chief fiscal officer from requiring a person desiring to enroll in a community college as a non-resident student to disclose or furnish his or her social security number."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "S 8994"
citation: "New York S 8994 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["STAVISKY"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-05-03"
last_action: "2022-08-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69e8819c-7cce-4b9e-80a3-00a76c0fb5dc"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S8994"
source_hash: "fe39e3362fe32de32bdc284bceb3e2ba666887073fe8a54681429b6d25b2933c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 8994 (2021-2022) — Relates to certificates of residence required of community college enrollees

Provides for the electronic submission of certificates of residence by community college enrollees; prohibits a community college chief fiscal officer from requiring a person desiring to enroll in a community college as a non-resident student to disclose or furnish his or her social security number.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S8994** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8994&term=2021&Text=Y)
2. **S8994A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2021/S8994A)

## Votes

- Floor Vote - Version: A — **45–18** (pass) · upper
- Higher Education Vote — **8–3** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **119–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- STAVISKY — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-05-03** REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-10** 1ST REPORT CAL.1251
- **2022-05-11** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2022-05-16** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2022-05-23** AMENDED ON THIRD READING 8994A `amendment-passage`
- **2022-05-31** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2022-05-31** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2022-05-31** REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-03** SUBSTITUTED FOR A10426
- **2022-06-03** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.643
- **2022-06-03** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2022-06-03** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2022-08-05** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2022-08-17** SIGNED CHAP.542 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69e8819c-7cce-4b9e-80a3-00a76c0fb5dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).